Today's Opinions

The Friends of the Library Giant Book Sale was a huge success thanks to many, including Sue Ann Burkhardt and her husband and son, Mary Harper, Ralph Briggs, Lynn DiTullio, Carol Ward, Bryan Clark, Grace Anderson, Russ Wells, Barry Pickard and Spencer Pickard. Special Thanks to the Mormon church for the lending of a dozen tables and the four missionaries. All helped to set up bringing books out and then bringing books in after the sale. A job well done! Thank You!

This year, the Florida Legislature explored the option of expanding Medicaid coverage in our state. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires states to expand Medicaid coverage to everyone below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the opinion that Medicaid expansion would not be mandatory, but rather, each state could decide whether it was in its best interest to expand. As incentive to expand fully, the Obama Administration and Congress promised full federal funding for three years.

The governor of Florida is making it abundantly clear he will stop at nothing to sabotage the new federal health-care law. And in so doing, he’s putting at risk some of the very residents he was elected to serve.